"[144], The attention garnered by the LePage criticism led to efforts to encourage King to run for Governor of Maine in 2018. [130] He was critical of LePage for incorrectly suggesting in a 2015 radio address that King avoided paying Maine income taxes by living out of state for part of the year. "[34] According to The Guardian, Carrie "is the story of Carrie White, a high-school student with latent—and then, as the novel progresses, developing—telekinetic powers. And so it was. That's why I do it. [61] At first the public assumed that King had abandoned the project because sales were unsuccessful, but King later stated that he had simply run out of stories. "[41] After his mother's death, King and his family moved to Boulder, Colorado, where King wrote The Shining (published 1977). Congrats, Kid – The Future Lies Ahead, Bill. Richard Matheson, Author of I Am Legend and Many Other Classics", "A Guide to Stephen King's Lovecraftian Gods", "The Castle of Otranto: The creepy tale that launched gothic fiction", "Yummi Bears, Lions, Boomtown, Mayer, and King – Uncle Orson Reviews Everything", "The New Classics: Books | EW 1000: Books | The EW 1000", "Earth Times: show/175900,stephen-king-backing-barack-obama.html", "Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? What I said was, Stephen King's not in Maine right now. Joshi argues that King's best-known works (his supernatural novels) are his worst, describing them as mostly bloated, illogical, maudlin and prone to deus ex machina endings. Louis Creed. [101][102] King wrote a musical entitled Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (2012) with musician John Mellencamp. According to Lisa Rogak's 2009 biography, Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King, baby Stephen's birth came as a surprise.Years earlier, Ruth King was diagnosed as infertile, which had led the Kings to adopt Stephen's older brother, David Victor, in 1945. [43] The collection is notable for having had three of its four novellas turned into Hollywood films: Stand by Me (1986) was adapted from the novella The Body,[44] The Shawshank Redemption (1994) was adapted from the novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption,[45] and Apt Pupil (1998) was adapted from the novella of the same name. Dr. Thandeka. The single released for radio play featured a narrative intro spoken by King. Stephen's daughter Marie I, Countess of Boulogne, also survived her father; she had been placed in a convent by Stephen, but after his death she left and married. [125], In 2008, King's book On Writing was ranked 21st on Entertainment Weekly's list of "The New Classics: The 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008". King and his wife Tabitha own Zone Radio Corp, a radio station group consisting of WZON/620 AM,[159] WKIT/100.3 & WZLO/103.1. King, Stephen (2000) On Writing New York: Scribner. Tabitha King is the third eldest daughter of Sarah Jane Spruce (née White; December 7, 1923 – April 14, 2007) and Raymond George Spruce (December 29, 1923 – May 29, 2014). That's what I said. [6] He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire bibliography, such as the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. [58] The story was reprinted in King's collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes in 1993 under his own name. [55] This led to a press release heralding Bachman's "death"—supposedly from "cancer of the pseudonym". [80], King announced in June 2014 that Mr. Mercedes is part of a trilogy; the second book, Finders Keepers, was released on June 2, 2015. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. I was made to write stories and I love to write stories. He is a master of masters."[123]. The Gunslinger was continued as an eight-book epic series called The Dark Tower, whose books King wrote and published infrequently over four decades. The novel began as a short story intended for Cavalier magazine, but King tossed the first three pages of his work in the garbage can. [4][5], King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. [126], In April 2008, King spoke out against HB 1423, a bill pending in the Massachusetts state legislature that would restrict or ban the sale of violent video games to anyone under the age of 18. And apparently he … The Kings have three children: Naomi Rachel, Joe Hill and Owen Phillip, and four grandchildren. Shortly before the accident took place, a woman in a car, also northbound, passed King first and then the light-blue Dodge van. The novel also presents a fictional afterword by Ellen Rimbauer's grandson, Steven. He began writing for fun while still in school, contributing articles to Dave's Rag, the newspaper his brother published with a mimeograph machine, and later began selling stories to his friends based on movies he had seen (he was forced to return the profits when discovered by teachers.) It is adapted from a fictional book central to the plot of King's previous novel The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands. He has often remarked that 'Salem's Lot was "Peyton Place meets Dracula. [151], King married Tabitha Spruce on January 2, 1971. In 2003, King was honored by the National Book Awards with a lifetime achievement award, the Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. [10][11][12] King's mother was Nellie Ruth King (née Pillsbury). King noted in the book's introduction that he does not use cell phones. ", King, Tabitha, Introduction to "Carrie" (Collector's Edition) Plume 1991, Cowsill, Alan "2000s" in Dolan, p. 340: "The first five double-sized issues consisted of two stories, illustrated by Rafael Albuquerque. [19], As a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. [92][93][94], In 1988, the band Blue Öyster Cult recorded an updated version of its 1974 song "Astronomy". I really can't imagine doing anything else and I can't imagine not doing what I do. The short story "The Raft" was published in Adam, a men's magazine. [130], On April 30, 2012, King published an article in The Daily Beast calling for rich Americans, including himself, to pay more taxes, citing it as "a practical necessity and moral imperative that those who have received much should be obligated to pay ... in the same proportion". [161] In his book On Writing, King states he was heading north, walking against the traffic. ", "UPDATE: King continues attack on LePage, says 'I will not run' for governor", "Stephen King joins call for LePage to resign", "Maine's Stephen King says Gov. Other members include Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, James McBride, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount, Jr., Matt Groening, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Sam Barry, and Greg Iles. "Stephen King is turning his Maine home into a museum and writer's retreat", "The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished", "Stephen King, The Art of Fiction No. [147] On August 27, 2016, King called LePage "a bigot, a homophobe, and a racist". Well, this is the big one, of course. The book, whose profits were donated to assist with famine relief in Africa, was written by a number of different authors in the comic book field, such as Chris Claremont, Stan Lee, and Alan Moore, as well as authors not primarily associated with that industry, such as Harlan Ellison. After graduating from the University of Maine, King earned a certificate to teach high school but, unable to find a teaching post immediately, he initially supplemented his laboring wage by selling short stories to men's magazines such as Cavalier. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Dozens of book contracts … His parents were married in Scarborough, Maine, on July 23, 1939. He has extended this to breaking the fourth wall by including himself as a character in The Dark Tower series from The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla onwards. [24], From 1966, King studied at the University of Maine, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. The movie is based on Stephen King's 'Thinner'. "Stephen King FAQ: "Why did you write books as Richard Bachman? [141], King publicly criticized Paul LePage during LePage's tenure as Governor of Maine, referring to him as one of The Three Stooges (with then-Florida Governor Rick Scott and then-Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker being the other two). [27] In 1971, King was hired as a teacher at Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine. "[157]:206, King was conscious enough to give the deputy phone numbers to contact his family but was in considerable pain. What he is is an immensely inadequate writer on a sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph, book-by-book basis. The story follows the experiences of seven children as they are terrorized by an evil entity that exploits the fears of its victims to disguise itself while hunting its prey. " Before that, she was involved in restaurant business, and also worked as a gay activist. [116] The Overlook Hotel acts as a replacement for the traditional gothic castle, and Jack Torrance is a tragic villain seeking redemption. King has written two novels with horror novelist Peter Straub: The Talisman (1984) and a sequel, Black House (2001). [7] In 2015, he was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature. [12] His parents were married in Scarborough, Maine, on July 23, 1939. He is married to Lisa Malfa King and both they are parents to 2 kids. In 2020, King released If It Bleeds, a collection of four previously unpublished novellas. The short story "The Fifth Quarter" was published under the pseudonym John Swithen (the name of a character in the novel Carrie), by Cavalier in April 1972. Carrie was King's fourth novel,[31] but it was the first to be published. Stephen King has written a lot of books – at 56 novels, he's closing in on Agatha Christie – some of which have been great, some of which less so. Stephen is of Scots-Irish ancestry, stands 6'4" and weighs about 200 pounds. King rewrote the original 1973 manuscript for its publication.[57]. When King was two years old, his father left the family. [60], In 2000, King published online a serialized horror novel, The Plant. King's mother was Nellie Ruth King (née Pillsbury). He is overjoyed when his wife gives birth to a baby girl whom they name Aurora. [122], In his short story collection A Century of Great Suspense Stories, editor Jeffery Deaver noted that King "singlehandedly made popular fiction grow up. [42], In 1982, King published Different Seasons, a collection of four novellas with a more serious dramatic bent than the horror fiction for which King is famous. On her way to the annual Father’s Day dinner with the remaining descendants, Bedelia stops at the cemetery where Nathan is buried accidentally spilling her whiskey bottle on his grave with unexpected consequences. [89], King and Richard Chizmar collaborated to write Gwendy's Button Box (2017), a horror novella taking place is King's fictional town of Castle Rock. In 1977, the family, with the addition of Owen Philip (his third and youngest child), traveled briefly to England, returning to Maine that fall, where King began teaching creative writing at the University of Maine. [56] King dedicated his 1989 book The Dark Half, about a pseudonym turning on a writer, to "the deceased Richard Bachman", and in 1996, when the Stephen King novel Desperation was released, the companion novel The Regulators carried the "Bachman" byline. [26] King held a variety of jobs to pay for his studies, including janitor, gas pump attendant, and worker at an industrial laundry. 1988", "Gauntlet Press website, forthcoming titles", "Stephen King loads 'Gwendy's Button Box' with scares", "Reading CHASING THE BOOGEYMAN , by my sometime collaborator, Rich Chizmar (GWENDY'S BUTTON BOX and the forthcoming GWENDY'S FINAL TASK). [49] The following year, King published It (1986), which was the best-selling hard-cover novel in the United States that year,[50] and wrote the introduction to Batman No. "[105] King usually begins the story creation process by imagining a "what if" scenario, such as what would happen if a writer is kidnapped by a sadistic nurse in Colorado. He continued to contribute short stories to magazines and worked on ideas for novels. The latter featured 13 short stories, including a previously unpublished novella, N. Starting July 28, 2008, N. was released as a serialized animated series to lead up to the release of Just After Sunset. As King related in his memoir, he then sought help, quit all drugs (including alcohol) in the late 1980s, and has remained sober since. His injuries—a collapsed right lung, multiple fractures of his right leg, scalp laceration and a broken hip—kept him at CMMC until July 9. The statement was later corrected by the Governor's office, but no apology was issued. In 1973, King's novel Carrie was accepted by publishing house Doubleday. [86][87] It was later released in e-book and audiobook formats, the latter read by Stephen Lang. SHOCK NOVELIST Stephen King's daughter Naomi is in a lesbian uproar -- she's set to "marry" a woman who's her graduate school professor! [157]:73 Shortly after the novel's publication, King's family and friends staged an intervention, dumping on the rug in front of him evidence of his addictions taken from his office, including beer cans, cigarette butts, grams of cocaine, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil, Robitussin, and mouthwash. Shortly afterwards, they lived with Donald's family in Chicago before moving to Croton-on-Hudson, New York. "[citation needed], Other acknowledged influences include H. P. Lovecraft,[109][110] Arthur Machen,[111] Ray Bradbury,[112] Joseph Payne Brennan,[113] Elmore Leonard,[114] John D. MacDonald, and Don Robertson. He related in detail his primary inspiration for writing horror fiction in his non-fiction Danse Macabre (1981), in a chapter titled "An Annoying Autobiographical Pause". This spin-off is a rare occasion of another author being granted permission to write commercial work using characters and story elements invented by King. Scott Snyder wrote the story of Pearl. [157]:216, King's lawyer and two others purchased Smith's van for $1,500, reportedly to prevent it from appearing on eBay. His books have sold more than 350 million copies,[2] and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. [135][136][137], In June 2018, King called for the release of the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was jailed in Russia. King said LePage was "full of the stuff that makes the grass grow green"[142] and demanded that LePage "man up and apologize". Stephen Kings House. King argued that such laws allow legislators to ignore the economic divide between the rich and poor and the easy availability of guns, which he believed were the actual causes of violence. Paul LePage 'is a bigot, a homophobe, and a racist, "Stephen King to donate $70,000 to heat Maine homes". His father, Donald Edwin King, was a merchant seaman who was born with the surname Pollock but changed it to King as an adult. [157]:69 King's addictions to alcohol and other drugs were so serious during the 1980s that, as he acknowledged in On Writing in 2000, he can barely remember writing Cujo. An alternate explanation was that publishing standards at the time allowed only a single book a year. Well, it's stuff like that that has made King so popular, and helped free the popular name from the shackles of simple genre writing. [citation needed], In 1996, King won an O. Henry Award for his short story "The Man in the Black Suit". Despite these criticisms, Joshi argues that since Gerald's Game (1993), King has been tempering the worst of his writing faults, producing books that are leaner, more believable and generally better written. His mother raised him and his older brother David by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. 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